Trevor Royle’s – A Time of Tyrants, Scotland and the Second World War (Birlinn, £25.00) starts symbolically with the Empire Exhibition in Bellahouston Park, Glasgow, in 1938. Glasgow perceived itself as ‘the second city of the Empire’ and with some legitimacy…..
 
The above article was first published in Lothian Life on 3 November 2011.  It can be read in its entirety at:
http://www.lothianlife.co.uk/2011/11/a-time-of-tyrants-scotland-and-the second-world/